Safety-pin.



VNo. 849,217. PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

R.D0UGLIAS. SAFETY PIN.'

APPLICATION FILED JANJO, 1906. BENEWEDFEB. 1v3, 1907.

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RICHARD DOUGLAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed January l0, 1906. Renewed February 13, 1907. Serial No. 357.190.

To all whom t 71mg/ concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD DOUGLAS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Safety-Pin, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

. durable, and eiective and so that it will lie flat in either its initial or its reversed position, and, further, to so construct the guard that when the point of the pin or thrust member is received-therein the material will be so crowded at the mouth orentering portion of the guard as to act as a barrier at such point, it being necessary to push the material aside to readily open the device.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device, showing it open in positive lines and closed in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device, representing it ap lied toa piece of material and as in its initia position, the device being shown open in positive lines and closed in dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the device, showing it in its reversed position, its bottom side being up and the material being located upon the body member of the device, the device being illustrated as closed in posi tive lines and as open in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the device and a section of the material to which it is applied, the device being in the position shown in positive lines in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the device, showin;y a slightly-modied form of guard, being illustrated open in positiye lines and closed in dotted lines; and Fig. 7 is a transverse section taken practically on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6.

The device consists of a pin or thrust member A, a body member B, and a guard member O. The pin or thrust member A and the body member B are integral or made from one piece of spring-wire of suitable gage, and the pin or thrust member A is provided with a pointed outer end and crosses the body member B when the device is in its open position adjacent to the end opposite that at which the guard C is located, and by this crossing of the two members A and B a loop 11 is formed, which constitutes one end portion of the device.

The body member B is provided at one end with an offset from which extends an arched section 12, extending nearly from end to end in order that one member shall not interfere with the material carried by the other member when the device is applied. The guard O is secured in any' suitable or approved manner to the end 13 of the body of the device, and in the form of the device shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 the guard O is made of sheet metal, closed at its outer ends and at its sides and open at the bottom. In fact, the said guard C is hollow,.and it is provided with a slot 14 in what is normally its upper face, the slot being quite close to the point of attachment 13 between said guard O and the body member B of the device.

In the operation of this form of pin the thrust or pin member A is introduced into the fabric 15 as often as may be necessary to practically fill up said pin or thrust member the major portion of its length, as shown in Fig. 2)?. The body member is then carried toward the pin member until the pointed end of the pin member has entered the guard O through the slot 14 therein and occupies a position in said head common to a safety-pin, as is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

By locating the slot 14 so close to the point of connection between the guard and the body B when the pin and the body members of the device are brought to their closed position the material will be puckered up at the slot or opening 14 to such an extent as to form a barrier, which will in a great measure prevent the pin member from accidentally leaving the said guard O.

1f it is desired to render the pin doubly se- IOO IIO

cure when applied to the fabric 15 after the device is closed, as is shown in Fig. 3, the guard member of the device is grasped, and said device is turned bodily end for end, causing the material to slide along the loop 11 and find its way upon the arched member 12 of the body member B, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and when such position is attained the device will be bottom upward, and the pin or thrust member should it be accidentally freed from the guard C will be above the fabric and will not be liable to stick therein, and certainly the body portion of the device cannot possibly be withdrawn from the fabric until the members of the device are restored to their initial position.

In Fig. 6 I have illustrated the device as made from one piece of material--namely, a piece of wire of suitable gage-and in this form of the device it consists also of a pin or thrust member A, a body member B', and a loop end 1]a and a guard C, and the body B isvprovided with an arched section 12a. The guard C is formed by simply coiling the wire upon itself, and sundry of the coils are separated to form a mouth 16, (best shown in Fig. 7,) into which mouth the point of the thrust or pin member A isv introduced when the device is to be closed.

It will be observed that by reason of the peculiar formation of the device it cannot only be made to occupy two positions, one an exceedingly secure one, but the device will lie perfectly 'ilat on the material to which it is applied in both of its positions.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A safety-pin having a body portion provided at one end with a flattened guard projecting to one side thereof, the body porthe pin member or the body member through the fabric in position to bear the strain of the piercing action and. the loop being projected to the opposite side of the body member from the guard whereby the pin will be caused to lie flat when in eitherposition, substantially as set forth.

2. A safety-pin, comprising a body portion provided at one end with a guard proiecting laterally therefrom, and a pin portion united with the opposite end of the body by a single bend whereby to facilitate the shifting of the pin to bring the fabric into engagement with one or the other portions of the said pin, the said pin portion crossing the body portion and extending on approximately a straight line and arranged at its point to engage the guard, the bend uniting the portions of the pin being projected to the opposite side of the body portion from the guard and the body portion being offset adjacent to the guard, to space the said body portion from the pin portion when the latter is engaged with the guard.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD DOUGLAS.

I/itnesses J. FRED. Aoirn, JNO. M. RITTER. 

